Global Patent Index - EP 2342927 A4

EP 2342927 A4 20120606 - DOWNLINK NETWORK SYNCHRONIZATION MECHANISM FOR FEMTOCELL IN CELLULAR OFDM SYSTEMS

Title (en)

DOWNLINK NETWORK SYNCHRONIZATION MECHANISM FOR FEMTOCELL IN CELLULAR OFDM SYSTEMS

Title (de)

DOWNLINK-NETZWERKSYNCHRONISATIONSMECHANISMUS FÜR FEMTOZELLEN IN ZELLULÄREN OFDM-SYSTEMEN

Title (fr)

MÉCANISME DE SYNCHRONISATION DE RÉSEAU DE LIAISON DESCENDANTE DESTINÉ À UNE FEMTOCELLULE DANS DES SYSTÈMES OFDM CELLULAIRES

Publication

EP 2342927 A4 20120606 (EN)

Application

EP 09823091 A 20091030

Priority

  • CN 2009074732 W 20091030
  • US 10999908 P 20081031
  • US 58997409 A 20091030

Abstract (en)

[origin: WO2010048899A1] A method of downlink synchronization for a femto base station in a cellular orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system is provided. The femto base station first scans one or more received reference signals transmitted from a plurality of neighboring macro base stations. The femto base station then determines a desired reference signal from the received 5 one or more reference signals based on the scanning result. Finally, the femto base station configures its downlink radio signal transmission time based on the desired reference signal such that the femto base station is synchronized with the plurality of neighboring macro base stations.

IPC 8 full level

H04W 56/00 (2009.01); H04J 11/00 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP US)

H04J 11/0056 (2013.01 - EP US); H04J 11/0069 (2013.01 - EP US); H04J 11/0093 (2013.01 - EP US); H04L 27/2627 (2013.01 - US); H04W 56/0015 (2013.01 - EP US); H04W 72/23 (2023.01 - US); H04J 3/0641 (2013.01 - EP US); H04L 27/2655 (2013.01 - EP US)

Citation (search report)

  • [IY] DE 10032934 A1 20020124 - SIEMENS AG [DE]
  • [XP] US 2009097452 A1 20090416 - GOGIC ALEKSANDAR M [US]
  • [XYI] "3rd Generation Partnership Project;Technical Specification Group Radio Access Network;Home (e)NodeB;Network aspects(Release 8)", 3GPP DRAFT; R3.020_V090_CLEAN, 3RD GENERATION PARTNERSHIP PROJECT (3GPP), MOBILE COMPETENCE CENTRE ; 650, ROUTE DES LUCIOLES ; F-06921 SOPHIA-ANTIPOLIS CEDEX ; FRANCE, vol. RAN WG3, no. Jeju Island; 20080818, 3 September 2008 (2008-09-03), XP050423676
  • [Y] VODAFONE GROUP ET AL: "Text Proposal for HNB TR25.9xx: Guidance on HNB Measurements", 3GPP DRAFT; R4-082314, 3RD GENERATION PARTNERSHIP PROJECT (3GPP), MOBILE COMPETENCE CENTRE ; 650, ROUTE DES LUCIOLES ; F-06921 SOPHIA-ANTIPOLIS CEDEX ; FRANCE, no. Scotland; 20080928, 28 September 2008 (2008-09-28), XP050325600
  • See references of WO 2010048899A1

Designated contracting state (EPC)

AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HR HU IE IS IT LI LT LU LV MC MK MT NL NO PL PT RO SE SI SK SM TR

DOCDB simple family (publication)

WO 2010048899 A1 20100506; CN 102017738 A 20110413; EP 2342927 A1 20110713; EP 2342927 A4 20120606; EP 2342927 B1 20160323; ES 2577547 T3 20160715; JP 2012506653 A 20120315; TW 201032640 A 20100901; TW I411332 B 20131001; US 2010110983 A1 20100506; US 2015163762 A1 20150611; US 8989085 B2 20150324

DOCDB simple family (application)

CN 2009074732 W 20091030; CN 200980100322 A 20091030; EP 09823091 A 20091030; ES 09823091 T 20091030; JP 2011532487 A 20091030; TW 98136856 A 20091030; US 201514621700 A 20150213; US 58997409 A 20091030